Lee Child Quotes

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive

veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle.